What is Paperwork?
Paperwork is an open source document manager software designed for easy organization and search of documents on your computer.
Key features of Paperwork include:
- Open source software licensed under GPLv3
- Available on Linux, Windows, and Mac
- Store documents locally on your computer, supports PDF and images
- Folder-based hierarchy for organizing documents
- Tag documents for more flexible categorization
- Full text search extracts text from PDFs to enable search within documents
- Desktop app with intuitive graphical interface
- Import documents from folders to get started quickly
- Portable version available to run from USB drives
Paperwork aims to provide an easy way for individuals to manage a personal collection of documents. The combination of folder hierarchy, tagging, and search allows flexible organization schemes suited for many different use cases. It can be a good alternative to commercial products like Evernote for basic document archival and retrieval needs without ongoing subscription fees or privacy concerns over data stored in the cloud.
With its focus on local storage without any required server or cloud component, Paperwork is a good option for those prioritizing privacy and long term accessibility of their documents. The open source codebase ensures continued community development support as well.
Adobe Acrobat DC, Paperless-ngx, Zotero, ABBYY FineReader PDF, TagSpaces, FileCenter, Papermerge DMS, Keepmark, Mayan EDMS, MyInfo, OwlOCR, Teedy, eDoc Organizer, GNOME Documents, fileee, Imixs-Office workflow, Stagsi are some alternatives to Paperwork.